Biography

Manuela Ribadeneira (b. Ecuador , lives in London) views her artistic work as a social, political and spatial investigation. She is particularly interested in symbolic meanings attached to real or imagined territories and the borders that define them. Her practice is based around constructions of objects and sound, utilising strategies of participation and performance in work that comments or intervenes on social and public spaces. She represented Ecuador in the Venice Biennale 2007 and in the Havana Biennale 2003, and was one of five Ecuadorian artists selected for the Sfiles Biennale at the Museo del Barrio in New York 2007. Was one of the selected artists for the Solo Project for ARCO 2008. She has produced a number of large-scale public art works, including a piece commissioned by the Architecture Biennale in Quito, Ecuador, in 2006. Her work is represented in public collections in Ecuador and in private collections in Europe and America. She is a founding member of the art collective Artes No Decorativas S.A.